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Germs, Volume 7, Issue 2

06 2017 - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access

The Central and Eastern European (CEE) Meeting on Viral Hepatitis and Co-infection with HIV is a two-day international conference that integrates keynote lectures and round table discussions with oral abstract and poster presentations [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
77 Views

Enterococcus spp. and S. aureus Colonization in NEUTROPENIC Febrile Children with Cancer

  • Julia R. Spinardi,
  • Rodrigo Berea,
  • Patricia A. Orioli,
  • Marina M. Gabriele,
  • Alessandra Navarini,
  • Marina T. Marques,
  • Milton N. Neto and
  • Marcelo J. Mimica

1 June 2017

Introduction: Febrile neutropenia is one of the most serious treatment-related complications in cancer patients. Susceptible to rapidly progressing infections, which result in prolonged hospitalization and use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, neutropen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
279 Views

High Level Bacterial Contamination of Secondary School Students’ Mobile Phones

  • Siiri Kõljalg,
  • Rando Mändar,
  • Tiina Sõber,
  • Tiiu Rööp and
  • Reet Mändar

1 June 2017

Introduction: While contamination of mobile phones in the hospital has been found to be common in several studies, little information about bacterial abundance on phones used in the community is available. Our aim was to quantitatively determine the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
103 Views

1 June 2017

Introduction: We performed a study to describe the clinical profile, antimicrobial susceptibility and prevalent serotypes of pneumococcal isolates from children with suspected invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) admitted to a tertiary care hospital i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
138 Views

1 June 2017

Introduction: Imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (IRPA), due to resistance to different classes of antibiotics and its remarkable capacity to survive in harsh and adverse conditions such as those in the hospital environment, is considered a se...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
89 Views

Simplified Protocol of Gel-Based Multiple Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Analysis (MLVA) for Staphylococcus aureus Typing

  • Hui-min Neoh,
  • Choi-Ying Yieng,
  • Raja Mohd Fadhil B Raja Abd Rahman,
  • Salasawati Hussin and
  • Rahman Jamal

1 June 2017

Staphylococcus aureus is commonly isolated in hospital wards and easily transmitted via human-to-human contact [...]

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